Apparel-corset.



D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET.

APPLICATION FILED OCT I6, 1917.

Patented Jan. 22, 1918.

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D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET. APPLICATION FILED ocT. I6, I917.

Patented I J an. 22, 1918.

WI TIVESS" DANIEL Kore, or new YORK, 1v. Y.

specification of Letters Patent.

APPAREL-CORSET. C

Patented Jan.2%,1ltl1@.

Application filed October 16, 1917. Serial No. 196,806.

.7 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York. have invented an Improvement in Apparel-Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an apparel cor set made in the usual manner with the corset body halves, provided in front with the necessary clasps, and in the back with eyelets and laces for adjusting the garment to position on the body of the wearer, and more particularly to the type and construction of self-reducing attachments in this form of corset.

Heretofore self-reducing straps have been associated with the halves of a corset garment, and in corsets fitted with self-reducing straps as shown in various patents heretofore granted to me, it has been customary to secure the self-reducing strap to the body of the garment, or the body of the garment and the depending skirt section along a line of stitching at or appreciably'forward of the hip section of the garment, and to adjust the self-reducing strap to position at and in conjunction with the lower portion of the front steel of the garment, so that the pull effected by the strap to exert a circumferential pressure against the body of the wearer is from the hip section toward the front steel. Heretofore corset garments have also been constructed with which there have been associated uplift tension straps so placed in the lower front portion of the garment as to simultaneously effect an inward and an upward pressure against the abdomen of the wearer to adequately and properly support the same. These uplift tension straps have been applied both to back lace and front lace garments as shown in patents heretofore granted to me.

The object of the present invention is the provision of an apparel corset in which there are employed self-reducing straps adjustable to position to exert a circumferential pressure on the underlying portions of the body of the wearer together with hose supporter straps which are secured in the garment independently of the self-reducing straps and adapted to coact therewith to produce a circumferential pressure to which reference is hereinbefore made, the hose supporter straps or the equivalent structures beingso placed in the garment as to overlie or cover and so conceal a means by which. the self-reducing straps are adjustable to position and at the same time to be placed an. appreciable distance from the forward or front steel edges of the halves of the garment. The corset made in accordance with the present invention will be hereinafter more particularly described.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the corset embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged partial front elevation of the form of garment shown in Fig. 1, and d Fig. 3is a view similar to Fig. 2 illustrating another form of the invention.

Referring to the drawing and particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, the apparel corset made in accordance with this invention may comprise a body member 10 made in similar halves as is customary in the usual form of back lace corset garments. At the front edge thereof the halves of the garment are fitted with steel sections 11 and 12, and the corset steels provided with clasps 13 by which the front edges of the garment may be connected and used, and as is usual at the back edges of each half of the corset garment the same is provided with series of eyelets 14 through which laces 15 are threaded in order to adjust the garment to position, on the body of the wearer. In this form of garment also the corset body halves are preferably provided with skirt members 29 depending therefrom and continuous from the front to the rear edge of each half of the garment.

In the form of invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2 I employ a self-reducing strap 17. The forward edge of this self-reducing strap 17 is fitted with a series of eyelets 18 any one of which is adapted to engage with a hook 19 provided for this purpose in the lower end of the corresponding front steel. Atthe opposite edge of the self-reducing strap 17 there is a series of eyelets 20. In this form of the invention there is an anchor strap 21 secured along one edge to the body of the garment forward of the hip section on a line of stitching 22 or otherwise. In its opposite edge there is a series of eyelets 23 corresponding in number and position with the eyelets 20 and through these eyelets 20 and 23 there is threaded a lace 24-which also passesthrough eyelets '25 so as to be drawn 7 and secured exteriorly of these eyelets 25. In

edge of the insert.

stitching 26 and extends downwardly therefrom to a line 27Wl1lCl1 indicates the lower This insert is also secured in the body of the garment along the line of stitching 22 in which the anchor inemberis also secured, and'at itsopposite or forward edge along a line of stitching 28, so that a portion ofthe insert extends beneath the lower front skirt section 29. In this form of the invention I employ a depending hose supporter strap indicated vat 30. This depending hose supporter strap along its upperedgeis-secured in the body'of the garment on the line ofstitching26 on whichas also hereinbefore describedytheinsert is connected. For a" portion of its .length on one sidealso, .th'e idependinghose supporter strap is iconnecte'd 'to the "body" of the garment alongithe line of stitching 22 in which both the anchor strap and the insert are also connected. This depending hose supporter strap therefore overlies the inner end of the self-reducing strap 17 and the anchor strap and the laces connecting the same, and is at an appreciable distance from the front steel. It extends beneath the front skirt section 29 and between the same and the underlying portion of the insert; At its lower end the depending hose supporter strap 30 is provided with a'hosesupporter31. In the use ofthis form of the invention the self-reducing strap is adjusted to position at its forward edge by the engagement of one of. the

' eyelets 18 with the hook 19 and the self-reducing strap further adjusted by placing the requiredtension on the lace 24:3.Ild securing the same in place. These parts together with the depending hose supporter strap coact with one another to produce the substantially circumferential pressure and the desired flattening effect on .the underlying parts of the body of the wearer. 32 designatesv a hose supporter depending from the extension'of the front steel section.

In the formof the invention shownin Fig. 3 the self-reducing strap is indicated at 33 and secured along one edge tothe front steel section by a line of stitching 34- or otherwise.

At its opposite edge the self reducing tension strap 33 is provided with a series of eyelets .35. Associated'with this self-reducing tension strap is ananchor strap36, fixed in the body of'the garment forward of the hip section by a line of stitching 37 or otherwise, and in this anchor strap 36 there is a series of eyelets 38 corresponding in number and position withthe eyelets 35 in the selfueducin-g tension strap. A lace 39 is threaded through the eyelets 3.5 and 38 and also througheyelets .40 so that "bymeans ofthe lace 39 the parts of the self-reducing tension strap may be adjusted to and maintained in position. In this form of the garment there is also an insert 4 1 similar to that shown and described in the other form of the invention.

This insert 4-1 is secured at its upper edge by aline of stitching 42 and extends there from to a line 43 which indicates the lower edge of the insert, so that a portion of this insert underlies the lower front portion of the skirt in the same manner as shown and described in connection with Figs. 1 and 2. The depending hose supporter strap in this construction is indicated at 44 and at its upper edge is connected with the body of the garment by the line of stitching 4-2 in which the insert ll is also connected. This depending hose supporter strap lit overlies the anchor strap and the inner end of the selfreducing strap and then passes beneath the lower front portions of the skirt and at its eXtremit-yis fitted with ahose supporter The lower front extension of the steel section may also befitted with a hose supporter indicated at 46. The adjustment of the parts of this form of the invention and the results produced are similar to those hereinbefore described in connection with theother form of the invention.

I claim asmy invention:

1. In an apparel corset and in each corset body half thereof, self-reducing devices eonsistingonlyof the single strap on the outer surface of the garment with the forward end of the devices connected to the lower front steel section of the garment and adjustable to position at its opposite or rearward end adjacent the hip section of the garment to produce a circumferential pressure against the underlying portions of the body of the wearer and means entirely located a substantial distance from the front steel for covering the adjustable rearward end 'of the self-reducing devices.

2. In an apparel corset and in eachcorsetbody half thereof, a single self-reducing strap located on the outer surface of the garment with the forward end thereof -adjustable to position at the front steel section and the opposite or rearward end thereof also adjustable to position adjacent the hip section of the garment for producing a circumferential pressure against the underlying por tion of the body of the wearer, and means entirely located a substantial distance from the front steel for covering the rearward adjustable end of the self-reducing strap.

3. In an apparel-corset and in each corset body half thereof, a single self-reducing strap 'adjustably connected at its forward end to the front steel section of the garment, means for .adjustably connecting .the opposite end of the self-reducing strap to the garment adjacent the hip section there of, .and .means aentirely. located a substantial magma distance from the front steel for covering the rearward adjustable end of the self-reducing strap.

4. In an apparel corset and in each corset body half thereof, a single self-reducing strap adjustably connected at its forward end to the front steel section of the garmerit, means for adjustably connecting the opposite end of the self-reducing strap to the garment adjacent the hip section there of, a depending hose supporter strap located in the corset a substantlal distance from the front steel and adapted to cover and conceal the means for adjusting the rearward end of the self-reducin strap to position.

5. In an. apparel corset and in each corset body half thereof, a single self-reducing strap adjustably connected at its forward end to the lower front steel section of the garment, lacing devices for connecting the opposite or rearward end of the self-reducing strap to the garment adjacent the hip section thereof and a depending hose supporter strap secured in the garment above the lacing devices by which the self-reducing strap is adjustable to position at its rearward end and overlying these lacing devices to conceal the same and entirely located a substantial distance from the front steel, the said hose supporter strap passing beneath the outer portlon of the garment immediately below the said lacing devices.

S jgned by me this 8th day of October, 191

DANIEL KOPS.

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